Improvement in machinery foe feinting on fabrics



-TO ALL WHOM I'l MAY CONCERN:

Quinn gisten @anni @titre Lesers Pate-m: No. 78,288, ma May so, ieee.

IMPROVMENTIN MACHINERY FOR PBITING ON FABRICS.

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Be it known that I, CHARLES HoriLIDAY, of Huddersfield, in the county ofXork-,England chemist, have invented certain new 'and useful Improvements in Means or Apparatus for Printing or Depositing on Woven or other Fabric or Material; and I do herobyldeclare that the following is a full and exactl description thereof.

Myimprovemont is intended more .particularly for printing with paint, japan-varnishes,-gums, or the likev material, which is thicker or more glutinous than is ordinarily employed; and where a large amount is required to be impressed, I prefer to apply the printing-rnatter,through holes, tubes, passages, or-perforations, from a. reservoir of the material, such holes or passages being, at their outlet, of the form desired to be impressed, and at the other part of a size adapted to the quantity desired to bc contained, and to flow through the passages'. I have been very successful inbrnamenting goods by this method, by simply impressing round dots. I increase the uidity of the glutinous material by heat, adapting blocks or rollers, by which the printing is'effected, to receive hot Water or steam'; or, in case this isnot practicable, I apply heat by radiation or otherivisfin order that the surfacesmay be heated when the printing is eifeeted. After the glutinous material is laid on the goods to be printed, it thichens in the act of cooling; and by cooling, or drying, or setting, or by a combination of these operations, cach spot becomes hard and permanent. i

The printing-surfaces may be of a cylindrical character, with a heating-chamber or chambers inside.

When the printing-mixture is notrequired to be heated, simple perforations, tubes,l or passages, with their outlets of the form desired, may be formed upon the cylindrical or `'other' printing-surfaces, for the passage of such printingmixture; and the printing-material may, by its consistency, or by thickening applied to it, be such-as j'ust to admit the quantity desired through'the opening-s or passages. v

By placing partitions in the reservoir of the block or roller, I can print as many colors as there are divisions introduced, the different coloring-mattersin the different cells or chambers ilowing throughthe several pipes or openings, as will be readily understood. l

When printing, I ll the reservoir or the block two or three inches deep, and' then apply steam, by preference, to the inside of the block. Thisheats the perforations and also the varnish or printing-material. The tubes ,or passages should bc'contracted a little back 'of the printing-surface. Y In other words, they should be countersunk on the end like an inverted cup, of the size and shape of the pattern required. The varnish passes down the tubes, and fills this countersink, and on'pressing the bloeit on thematerial to be printed, and again raising it, the varnish or other printing-material is left on the goods'in ,a quantity and figure depending on the area and depthvof the countersunk cavity. vThe cups or countersunk cavities iill again by the gradual How of the semieiiuid matter, and the process is repeated, as in common blockprintingp i I can apply thc heat very conveniently to some form of printing-blocks, by having ajacket of steam acting ou the neer or edge surfaces, or both. Imprinting with rollers, I have an inside compartment for steam, and another for color; arid, by operating slowly, the deposits are left on or in the goods very perfectly.

In orderto better conduct t'heAsemi-iluid matter, and to better insurejts reception and retention on the goods, I can introduce slender pointed wires or needles in the blank surfaces, or the backing against which the goods are pressed in the act of printing, which wires or needles shall puncture the goods at 'each point where a. dot is to be deposited, and shall extend into the'severa'l tubes or passages. The presence of these needles insures more perfect delivery of the coloring-matter, and more perfect adhesion to the cloth. I

In printing from blocks, the process can be applied withthe block upside down. In such case, the coloringmatter of an adjacent reservoir is to be kept on a level with the ends of the tube. The goods to be printed are pressed down upon the ends of thetubes, and take up the coloring-matter in the cups or countersinks, after which it is raised, and the process repeated continuously, the cups refilling after each operation by a moderate 'movement ofthe mass of coloring-matter in a. passage leading to the reservoir.

The accompanying drawings forml a part of this specification. Figure 1 is an end view, and l Figure 2 is a face view of the means for carrying out my linvention by means of rollers.

Figure 3 is a crosssection ofthe novel parts.

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section thereof. v g

Figure 5 is a cross-section of the parts in a different form. VHere they are not rollers, but plane surfaces l Figure 6 is a-section of a tube on a large scale. It is representedas standing clone.A It may thus stand alone, or may be sunk ilush with the adjacent surface, as may be preferred.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the ligures.

The drawings show the novelparts, with se much of the other parts as is'u'ecessary to show the relation thereto. Y

Referring to iigs. 1 to 4, A is the printing-roller, and a the tubes. The enlargement at the ends is indicated by a. The thick material is led through a passage, from n. reservoir, B. Steam is admitted through a. pipe c, from a boiler, not represented.

' The gear-wheels for impelling the rolls, and the stutlng-bo-xes for 'making proper connections between the hollow revolving shaft, and the passages leading the ink and the steam, are not shown in detail, but will be readily supplied. They may be of the ordinaryvconstruction. A.

Referring to tig. 5, I) is a xed bed, and M is a rectangular case of iron, having connections for'moving it up and down, not represented. The thick ink onother matter to be applied, is placed iny the open top ot' M of the case M, and flows slowly dow'n throughthe tubes a a', while steam isallowed to circulate through the space between the tubes a, entering through one or both the ilexible pipesN N; It may, by preference,\cnter through one and escape .dlrough the other. Warm air, water, o'r other iluid, may be used instead of steam, when'steam would impart too high a'temperature. i Y

Having new fully described my invention, what I claim sv new therein, and desire yto secure by Letters Patent, is as follows: i

l. I claim the within-described process of ornamenting goods, by applying coloring or ornamenting-materiel through tubes impressed against the material, with or without the aid of needles or leading wires', substantially as herein specified. l y

2. I claim the application of heat, in connection with the ,tubes in the above process, substantiallyas and for the purpose specified; Y

3. I claim, in connection with printing through tubes, the enlargement of the tubes at and,uear the printingsurfaces, so as to forru cups, which tend' to determine the depth in the tube from which coloring. or otherviscid matter is'drawn at each impression, substantially es and for the purpose herein specified.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name in presence of' two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES HOLLIDAY.

Witnesses:

READ IIOLLIDAY, JOHN HoLLinAY. 

